Word: knowland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform Sigler had grabbed a telephone and was talking to Vandenberg, getting the final word to jump. Other coalition bosses looked for California's Bill Knowland, who in all conscience should also be given the chance to say aye or nay. But Knowland could not be found. Then the chair announced the count, which formally closed the second ballot. It was too late to make any changes...
...Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry, the ex-isolationist from Nebraska. Among the conferees were such diehard inheritors of the old isolationist tradition as Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...
Freshman Bill Knowland cut little ice in his first few months in the Senate, but he cut plenty in his 1946 senatorial campaign. To the astonishment of everybody, including California's Republicans, he soundly defeated the Democrats' popular Will Rogers...
That, apparently, was the lift Bill Knowland needed. He sailed into Washington with the enthusiasm of a man determined to stay. He was an attentive, fair-minded and active member of the Atomic Energy Committee. He startled the party sages who expected him merely to sit tight, learn the ropes and follow the leaders. He had always had an unusual head for facts & figures. Now he had shown that he also had parliamentary skill...
...Senator Knowland was speaking, in part, rhetorically. The U.S. has not been debt-free since...